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evolute en · ADJ

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Meanings

1. Having or being a (mollusc) spiral shell in which the whorls touch along a surface.
2. Unfolded; turned back.

Coordinates

involute · convolute · advolute

evolute en · NOUN

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Meanings

1. A curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve.

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Relateds

involute

Translations (12)

it evoluta (a curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve) · pl ewoluta (a curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve) · cs evoluta (a curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve) · hu evoluta (a curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve) · fi evoluutta (a curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve) · de Evolute (a curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve) · fr développée (a curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve) · tl balisultag (a curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve) · uk еволю́та (a curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve) · ru эволю́та (a curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve) · et evoluut (a curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve) · es evoluta (a curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve)

evolute en · VERB

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Meanings

1. (formal, transitive) Synonym of evolve (“cause to come into being”).
   • Now these are the generations of the higher vertebrata, in the cosmic period that the Unknowable evoluted the bipedal mammalia […] 1875, John Muehleisen Arnold, Genesis and Science; Or The First Leaves of the Bible, page 99:
   • […] and when the male physical germ evoluted the male into existence its soul-germ at the same time evoluted the soul into existence. 1892, Oliver Paul Gooding, The People's God Vs. the Monarchic God, page 401:

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Synonyms

evolve